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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: 'Music director calling tracks vs SM calling tracks' Question

« on: Mar 30, 2017, 10:25 pm »

We are not using Sinfonia or any changeable tracks. All of the music has been recorded and put into Qlab. They will fire as if they were sound cues, only they're are music tracks.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / CALLING: 'Music director calling tracks vs SM calling tracks' Question

« on: Mar 29, 2017, 11:15 pm »

Hello Everyone!

I am currently working on the production "Chicago" through my university, as a student stage manager with a faculty music director. Instead of a live band, we are using recorded music that's being fired through Qlab. Our music director will also be acting as our board operator. In most situations the live music cues would be given by the conductor, so the stage manager would not call that. However tracks would normally be called by the stage manager.

Should the music director/conductor run his own music cues because this is a musical or because they are tracks should I be calling them? What is this industry standard on this?

I would love to hear more insight from other stage managers who might be/have been in this position. Thanks!

Some additional information about this project:
This show is a workshop style production, so we have a simple set design with no scene changes or special effects. I will only be calling lights and curtain cues (so I would easily be able to add music into my calling). Our music director has been present at all rehearsals and is already aware of when/where cues should be fired.

Edited to add topic tag- Maribeth